Bees of the genus Anthidium Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae: Anthidiini) from China
Author
Niu, Ze-Qing
niuzq@ioz.ac.cn
Author
Yuan, Feng
yuanfeng@ioz.ac.cn
Author
Ascher, John S.
dbsajs@nus.edu.sg
Author
Kasparek, Max
asparek@t-online.de
Author
Orr, Michael C.
michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com
Author
Griswold, Terry
terry.griswold@usda.gov
Author
Zhu, Chao-Dong
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-22
4867
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4867.1.1
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Anthidium
(
Anthidium
)
kashmirense
Mavromoustakis, 1937
(
Fig. 15
a–f, female;
Fig. 16
a–h, male;
Fig. 17
a–f,
♂
,
A
. (
Anthidium
)
nigroventralis
Wu, 1982
,
holotype
.)
FIGURE 15.
Anthidium
(
Anthidium
)
kashmirense
Mavromoustakis, 1937
. Female. a: Body in lateral view; b: Head in frontal view; c: Clypeus in frontal view; d: Mesosoma in dorsal view; e: Metasoma in dorsal view; f: T4–T6 in dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.
FIGURE 16.
Anthidium
(
Anthidium
)
kashmirense
Mavromoustakis, 1937
. Male. a: Body in lateral view; b: Head in frontal view; c: Clypeus in frontal view; d: Mesosoma in dorsal view; e: Fore wing; f: Metasoma in dorsal view; g: Propodeum in dorsolateral view; h: T5–T7 in dorsal view. Sclae bars: 1 mm.
Anthidium kashmirense
Mavromoustakis, 1937: 151
,
♂
Anthidium nigroventralis
Wu, 1982: 410
,
♂
.
Syn. nov.
Anthidium
(
Anthidium
)
nigroventralis
Wu, 1982
:
Wu, 2006: 161
,
♂
(redescription), Fig. 83.
Diagnosis:
The males of this species can be easily identified by the completely black metasomal terga, without yellow maculations and posterior terga with long and dense fox-reddish hair (
Fig. 16h
); while the females may be identified by mostly black pubescence on T1–T3 contrasting with the fox-red pubescence on T4–T6 (
Fig. 15a
) and lower part of face with long black pubescence (
Fig. 15b
). There is some variability in the extent of reddish pubescence in males (
Figs 16f
,
17e
).
FIGURE 17.
Anthidium
(
Anthidium
)
nigroventrale
Wu, 1982
. Male (Holotype). a: Body in lateral view; b: Head in frontal view; c: Clypeus in frontal view; d: Mesosoma in dorsal view; e: Metasoma in dorsal view, showing T1–T4; f: Type label information. Scale bars: 1 mm.
Description:
Female. BL = 7.8 mm (
Fig. 15a
); head broader than long, HW: HL = 60: 54 (
Fig. 15b
); gena slightly broader than eye, GW: EW = 17: 14. Clypeus broader than long, apical margin of clypeus straight and smooth, with two distinctly lateral tubercles (
Fig. 15c
); mandible with six sharp teeth separated by acute notches, the apical one longest (
Fig. 15c
); omaular carina absent; pronotal lobe rounded anteriorly; scutellum rounded posterolaterally, without tooth, not greatly overhanging metanotum and propodeum (
Fig. 15d
); propodeum without fovea behind spiracle; fore wing with two submarginal cells, the cells nearly equal in length, second recurrent vein meets distal to second submarginal crossvein (
Fig. 15a
); arolia absent (
Fig. 15a
); metasomal terga without maculations (
Fig. 15e
). Integument black, except one small yellow marking on vertex near apex of eye (
Fig. 15b
,
Fig. 15d
), reddish-brown on tarsi (
Fig. 15a
). Fore wing hyaline, slightly brownish, veins and stigma dark blackish-brown (
Fig. 15a
). Pubescence on T1–T3 black (
Fig. 15e
), T5–T6 with fox-reddish pubescence (
Fig. 15f
); lower part of face with long black pubescence (
Fig. 15b
); vertex, scutum and scutellum covered with long yellowish-white pubescence (
Fig. 15a
,
Fig. 15d
); gena, mesepisternum covered long black pubescence; tarsi covered with reddish-brown hair, femora, tibiae covered with long black hair; scopa fox-reddish.
Material examined:
China
,
Xizang
:
Burang County
(
30º18′N
,
81º06′E
),
5400 m
,
1 ♂
(
holotype
),
21.VII.1976
, leg.
Fu-Sheng
HUANG
;
Xigazê District
,
Yadong County
,
Pali Town
, S204 Road-
264km
(
27º24′N
,
89º05′E
),
4331 m
,
2 ♀
,
1 ♂
,
23.
VI
.2016, leg.
Qing-Tao
WU
;
Xigazê District
,
Yadong County
,
Pali Tow
(
27º24′N
,
89º03′E
),
4332 m
,
2 ♂
,
8.VII.2018
, leg.
Qing-Tao
WU
;
Gamba County
, Z715 Road-
80km
(
28º07′N
,
88º28′E
),
4757 m
,
1 ♀
,
10.VII.2018
, leg.
Qing-Tao
WU
.
Type
localities.
India
: Jammu and Kashmir:
Gulmarg
,
China
:
Xizang
:
Burang County
.
Distribution:
China
(
Xizang
),
India
(
Jammu and Kashmir
,
Sikkim
).
Floral association:
unknown.
Remarks:
Anthidium nigroventrale
Wu
is synonymized here with
A. kashmirense
Mavromoustakis
based on study of the
holotype
male of the latter (NHMUK). The female is described for the first time. The
holotype
of
A. nigroventralis
Wu, 1982
(IZCAS) was dissected, but S7–S8, T7, and the genitalia are lost.